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Today’s Crossword

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ACROSS

1 “__ show time!” 4 Get some rays 8 Weak, excuse-wise 14 Stanley Cup org. 15 “See ya” 16 Change from five stars to three, say 17 Drink with jam and bread, in song

18 “You think anyone cares about MY opinion?”

20 Nocturnal birds

22 HBO miniseries “Big

Little __” 23 Easy-to-scam people 24 Boatload (of) 27 Caramel-filled candy 28 “Hold the Hellmann’s” 29 Protein-building acid 31 Mother in Calcutta 35 “On the Beach” novelist Shute

36 Texter’s #1 pal 39 “Let’s see here ...” 41 Finish

42 “You win” 44 Ophthalmol­ogist’s concern 46 Myanmar, once 47 Gives the go-ahead 51 Scent

52 Overall concept of the universe

55 Guthrie of folk 56 Manufactur­e 57 Designer Gucci 58 Eye-of-newt concoction 62 Sense of self

63 “You can say that

again!”

64 Christmas season 65 U.S. House member 66 “You can say that again!”

67 City near Tulsa 68 Radical ’60s campus gp.

DOWN 1 Visiting the area 2 “My Generation”

rock band

3 Zigzag ski event 4 “Before I forget,” in texts

5 “Say __”: doctor’s directive

6 Buy time 7 Longtime “Today” cohost Couric

8 Some big dos 9 Kauai garland 10 Exasperati­ng 11 “Holy smokes!” 12 Drop by, colloquial­ly 13 Evergreens shrubs 19 Drops on the grass 21 Wood strip 25 Glasses and goggles 26 Achy

27 Acted without restraint 30 Overused, as jokes 32 Shade tree

33 Foxy

34 “I’ll take that as __” 36 Lobster eater’s protection

37 The “F” element in CFC 38 Full-size cars of the 1960s-’80s 40 Lustrous white gem 43 Kissy-kissy 45 Thomas __ Edison 48 Persian Gulf ships 49 Crammed (into)

... and, when aptly hyphenated, like 18-, 24-, 39-, 52- and 58-Across 50 Descends suddenly 52 Used to be

53 “All right, so long” 54 “Friends” episode, now 55 Not 1-Down

56 Kitty sounds 59 Groundbrea­king invention? 60 Quarterbac­k Manning 61 Marry

Monday’s Puzzle solved:

 ??  ?? Puzzle by Bruce Haight and Loren Smith 3/27/18
Puzzle by Bruce Haight and Loren Smith 3/27/18
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